Case 1.
Falun Dafa practitioner Miu Qun from Dazhou, Sichuan Province died while being force fed by police
Miu Qun lived in the countryside of Qu county of Dazhou city, Sichuan province. In January this year, Miu Qun went to Beijing to appeal to the central government regarding truth of Falun Gong and her own experiences. She was escorted back and was detained in the local detention center. To strive for a legal environment for the cultivation and practice, she started a hunger strike. The police forcefully inserted a plastic tube into her stomach to feed her. During the process, they mistakenly inserted it to her trachea and lung, and she died before long.
The government of Sichuan Province and Dazhou City strictly blocked the information. They left this happening unsettled without a hearing or investigation.
Practitioners in China
June 2000
Case 2.
Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Xingtian from Ningjin County, Hebei Province was beaten to death by the local government
Wang Xingtian was a farmer, 44 year-old, living in Nanqi village, Dayangzhuang town of Jin county, Hebei Province. Since Wang was firmly determined to practice cultivation and refused to submit a writen pledge to denounce Falun Dafa, he was beaten to death in the office of the town government on March 25, 2000.
The town government suspected that Wang and others would go to Beijing to appeal on February 21, 2000. They therefore detained 11 practitioners in the "Law education center" of Ningjin county. After being illegally detained for 33 days, the practitioners were transferred to the town government office building with no food or water provided.
During the illegal detention, the town government forced each practitioner to pay 1000 Yuan for the so-called "appeal detention fee". Some didn't get any receipt. They forced each of the 11 practitioners to pay an extra 1000 Yuan and write a written pledge. Wang Xingtian was firmly determined on Falun Dafa and refused to write.
In the afternoon of March 25, Wang's friend came and tried to persuade him to write the pledge and pay the fine so he could go home. Wang was not moved. His family then submitted a written pledge for him and paid the fine under pressure. Around 2 to 3pm that day, the town government instigated local ruffians to beat Wang cruelly with electric batons. Wang's body was covered all over with bruises and even holes; it's too horrible to look at. An obviously fatal wound was a big hole at the back of his head. Only after Wang's family had paid the fine and submitted the written pledge were they allowed to take him home. At that time Wang had lost his consciousness. When they arrived home at 5:00 pm, they found Wang had already died. Wang's murder, perpetrated by the town government, shocked everyone in the village, who expressed extreme indignation. The news was soon spread to the whole town.
Wang's family was overwhelmed with grief and indignation. They put Wang's body in front of the town government office building for three days to request justice. Being aware of the crime, the government tried hard to cover the truth and privately negotiated with Wang's family. They paid 75,000 Yuan to cover it up. To conceal their crime that overlooked the law and caused Wang's death, they even patched over the photo showing the big hole at the back of Wang's head.
Now three months have passed, the grievance was still covered up by the authorities. We cannot help asking, who has provided the town government the right of illegal detention and torture abuse? Who has given them the power to act with utter disregard for human life? Who has backed up the town government in their decision to trample the law? We strongly urge the government to punish the murderers and return the innocence to Falun Dafa!
Practitioners from Hebei Province
July 14, 2000
Case 3.
Shanghai Falun Dafa Practitioner, Li Jianbin, Has Left the Human World
You are gone, a precious life of 23 years old. You did not leave behind any words, and the information that you left was not even known by the fellow practitioners until two months after your death. You were a practitioner at the practice site of Shanghai Transportation University. At that time, your determined and solid cultivation left a deep impression for us. Upon graduating from the Shanghai Transportation University with a major in computer science in 1999, you found a job in a state-run company. Your family lived in a faculty building of Eastern University of Science and Technology, and you practiced Falun Gong there. Before long, the evil force began to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. You were determined to step forward to appeal for Falun Dafa. Due to this, you were illegally detained. Perhaps, for not making troubles to your work unit, or out of discontent with the constant escalation of persecution in your company, you had submitted your resignation letter four times, which was finally approved. You were always cheerful in the "reeducation and transformation class" of China Eastern University of Science and Technology, which had greatly pacified your relatives and friends. Since the practitioners who were staying together in that class were all sent to labor camps or dispersed back to hometown, or expelled from school, there is no way to know how much suffering you had experienced. All they knew was that on May 1, you went shopping with a police officer accompanying you all the way.
On May 13, to celebrate our master's birthday and the World Falun Dafa Day, your fellow practitioners went to different places to practice the exercises, held the experience sharing conferences, or went to Beijing to safeguard the Fa. Nobody knew what kind of activity you wanted to participate in. In order to avoid the police officer that was watching your door, you climbed out of the window on the fifth floor. How did you fall down on the ground, how did you leave this world, which is no longer important. What is important is that you were a Falun Dafa practitioner and gone for the purpose of verifying Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa created lives, so a life that has sacrificed himself to verify Falun Dafa will be brilliant forever!
Police blocked the information about your death, and your relatives dared not appeal. You left silently, just like your determined cultivationsilent, without showing off yourself. The fellow practitioners will soon know all of this, and will deeply yearn you. He Shi, our beloved and esteemed fellow practitioner, take care!
Shanghai Falun Dafa Practitioners
July 17, 2000
Case 4.
Falun Dafa Practitioner Zaiji Li in Jilin City, Jinlin Province was murdered unjustly
Li Zaiji, a 44 year-old male, was a resident in Chuanyin District, Jilin city, Jinlin Province. Both he and his wife are Falun Dafa practitioners.
Li was sentenced to one-year labor camp for appealing in October 1999.
On July 7th, 2000, the police of Jilin City notified Li's family to take care of him in the hospital. Led by the police, Li's mother wandered around in the hospital after going there. His mother felt something unusual, and asked: "whether my son is dead." The police admitted that he was. When his mother saw him, one of his eyes was closed, the other one was open, and she closed it with her hand. In the evening, his wife asked to have a look at his body, but this was not allowed by the police. After strong repeated requests, she finally got a chance to see his body. She found that Li's whole body was covered with red and blue marks, there was even gauze left in his eye.
Li's wife presented only one request: allow the fellow practitioners to pay the last respect to Li's remains. But the police refused and offered her son a job instead. Later on, their whole family was under police surveillance .
Last Thursday (July 13th) before the cremation, some of the Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested. His body was cremated at 9:00 am Friday under strict guard of the police.
The reason for his death was assumed to be because the Falun Dafa practitioners had passed around the latest article from Master Li in the Detention Center. Li Zaiji was persistent and unyielding during the time when the police investigated the source of the article. He was unwilling to hurt other practitioners due to his sake, and was tortured to death!
The police claimed Li died from dysentery.
But his 17-year-old son questioned it with two points: 1. If it was dysentery, then he should be treated first in the hospital, why was the family notified after the death? 2. Why were there red and blue marks allover his body if it was dysentery?
One more Falun Dafa practitioner left us under the persecution of the evil force! The sin and the crime conducted by the evil force will never be paid off! The determination of the Falun Dafa practitioners to safeguard Falun Dafa and to willingly sacrifice everything for Falun Dafa will never waiver!
Falun Dafa Practitioners in China
July 18, 2000
Case 5.
Weifang Falun Dafa Practitioner, Wang Peisheng, Died in Jail
Wang Peisheng was a retired 68-year-old male of the Weifang Hardware Station. He resided at Building 10, Miaopu Road One, of the Xiguan Sub-District in Weichang District, Weifang City. He had practiced Falun Gong since May of 1995. He was the formal associate contact person at the Weifang Assistance Center. He had been under police surveillance since July 20, 1999, and had received threats from the police and related government units for a long time. He was arrested in March of 2000 because he wrote a jointly signed appeal letter to the delegates of the National People's Congress reflecting the truth of Falun Gong.
On June 27, 2000, he went to Beijing and peacefully appealed according the civilians' right endowed by the Constitution. He was arrested, brought back by Weifang police, and detained for 15 days. He had to pay a fine of 600 Yuan, and his family did not receive any notice from the police.
In the detention center, some of the practitioners held a hunger strike. The local police learned from outside police officers that people normally require hospitalization after being on a hunger strike for 7 days, but Falun Gong practitioners would be fine for 15 to 20 days.
Wang was locked in a hot and humid cell 24 hours a day during the detention and had no chance to get out for fresh air. He was sometimes forced to do heavy labor. He lost his life under these circumstances. He left this human world in his cell around 2:00 AM on July 12, 2000. The hospital determined it to be a sudden death, and his family did not receive the information until 1:00 PM on that day. More frightening, before his family knew of the true cause of his death, the police forcefully intimidated them into cremating his body, thus destroying all evidence.
A healthy old person suddenly passed away, which is yet another tragedy since the deaths of practitioners Cheng Zixiu and Li Weixi. Since July 20 of last year, five practitioners have already died under the persecution of Weifang City.
We hope that the government officials will never again violate the law nor disregard human life by abusive violence, but would solve these problems with peaceful dialogue. Please never again let yourselves feel deeply ashamed by facing those kind-hearted people.
Weifang Falun Dafa practitioners
July 13, 2000
Category: Deaths
